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Nope. Wired presents this as if its a blanket exception for everything, its not. http://ifixit.org/blog/7475/repair-coalition-wins-exemptions... is a bit more clear on the types of…

The purpose of the hashes isn't to prove the file hasn't been tampered with, its confirm that the file wasn't corrupted during download.

Actually, this demo would be stopped if the stack protector was on. The demo relies upon overwriting the return pointer that controls where the function jumps to upon returning. Th…

As long as you use prepared statements correctly. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone passing a query though the prepared query method but still crafting the query dy…

I know you're making a joke but a passpoem or a passstory for lack of a better word is usable and something I do. I take a passage of reasonable length from a book that I've memori…

My bad, death:summit is correct.

> And I don't accept the echo-chamber consensus opinion of mountaineers that it's all worth it in the end. I'm not sure what mountaineers you've talked to but most I know don't lik…

There are risks but the last couple years have been exceptionally deadly. Prior to 2014 the deadliest day was May 11, 1996 (8 deaths). In the 1997 through 2013 seasons the average …

Adding to this, if people want a lonely long hiking trail the Continental Divide is a good choice. My longest period without seeing another person at all was 6days, and I know seve…

There are competitors, just in terms of the major long trails of the USA, there is the Pacific Crest(PCT) and the Continental Divide (CDT) those three make up the Triple Crown of l…

You don't have to run the executable. You can, but the problem is absolutely doable without running it (static reversing). As for the subdomains, you can safely ignore them. There …

Everything you need to figure it out is on the login page. Consider how hackernews works, there is the login page but that is not the only means to authenticating. You don't after …

Oh sorry, that is a side-effect from bringing it back the domain was slightly different. As for the login page, sometimes the way in is not through the front door.

Its a classic alright but being a classic just a warning to everyone some of it does require going back in time a little bit like dealing with a 16bit binary. If this type stuff in…

OSX should be doing the context switch also. The added penalty is a switch to usermode to read userland data, then a switch back to kernel to continue on...its just additional cont…

I've not graduated yet as I started in 2009 and just take courses every now and again instead of doing it all at once, I'm completing my last term this fall. First year with C++ an…

Yes its quite common now. Working in my high schools theater which was the largest in the town we'd get these types of requests so I imagine in they would be even more common for s…

I don't know of any official revelation but I did get a little insight into the amount of vacation taken at the company I work for when I had taken 'significantly more' vacation th…